Local Dynamics and History of Education. Municipalities and Schooling in InlandPortugal.

In the last decades, the history of education has evolved in terms of new sources, new epistemic objects, new hermeneutical perspectives. One of the most dynamic fields is the educational heritage and school memories. These are themes that gain substance and meaning in the density, contiguity and representation that characterize the regional and local history of education. As a location of education, with legitimacy to idealize and develop written acculturation and schooling, municipalities are the first entity of the public sphere. It is through the municipalities that the local community is represented and preserves sovereignty of action and adaptation. It is through the municipalities that the exterior reaches the local dimension and becomes a stimulus for development. At the political, administrative, cultural and educational levels, the tension between central and local power has permeated the last two centuries of Portugal's history. The history of municipalities in education is not uniform. This text will focus on the encouragement of schooling in the municipalities of Sertã, Proença-a-Nova, Vila de Rei and Mação. To understand the local dynamics associated with education, the pedagogical municipality concept will be used as a transformative complex and meta history. As far as possible, the history of Inland-Portugal will be taken as the reference in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]